Electoral College Should Be Abolished Essay

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Today in the United States, we are not living in a perfect democracy as a lot of people believe. It is unfair that in a large democracy like ours, we are electing our presidential candidates using the electoral college. In this system, each state has a group of electors where the number of electors is based on the population of the state. People of a state are not directly voting for the candidate, but rather are providing their 'electors' the votes to help make their decision. Each elector votes for the candidates their state has voted for but has right to vote against what the people of their state have decided on.
The electoral college is a misleading, outdated, and unfair system for the American people. It should be removed because the …show more content…

The former leaders of our country “feared a tyrant could manipulate public opinion and come to power” (HistoryCentral). Instead of having the population directly vote for the president, they included a “buffer between the population and the selection of a President” (HistoryCentral), by having electors, the most educated people in their respective state. These electors could go against the vote of their people and pick against a particular candidate if deemed necessary. This may have been a good idea at the time when our nation was still young, but now this is irrelevant. The literacy rate in America today is extremely high, and most people have access to unbiased information. Thanks to our technology, people get the best, latest, and most trustworthy information. What is the point of keeping the electoral college, if the reasons for founding them no longer …show more content…

The problem with this is that it creates an unproportional balance between the population and influence on the election in each state. Smaller states may have a higher “ratio” of population to influence. Plus, this logic is fundamentally flawed. If these states have smaller populations, then why should they have as equal of a say as a state with a larger population? The states with a larger populations should be more represented because those places are where citizens are affected most by government

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